WebSphere Contracts in England

IBM WebSphere
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring WebSphere skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WebSphere over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 451 511 549
Rank change year-on-year +60 +38 +13
Contract jobs citing WebSphere 34 31 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.083% 0.21%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.21% 0.90% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 25 61
10th Percentile £358 £416 £420
25th Percentile £359 £510 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.18% - -0.36%
75th Percentile £419 £619 £623
90th Percentile £452 £659 £675
UK median daily rate £392 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -28.73% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile - - £62.85
25th Percentile £61.50 - £64.88
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £66.00
75th Percentile £65.63 - -
90th Percentile £66.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 - £66.00

All Application Platform Skills
England

WebSphere falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,817 3,461 5,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.57% 9.31% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,884 2,471 3,915
10th Percentile £283 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £754
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 139 128
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.00 £15.38
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%
75th Percentile £64.50 £45.59 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £65.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

WebSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing WebSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for WebSphere in England

WebSphere
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WebSphere in England.

Daily rate trend for WebSphere in England

WebSphere
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebSphere in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WebSphere in England

WebSphere
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WebSphere in England.

Hourly rate trend for WebSphere in England

WebSphere
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSphere within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +25 13 £375 -34.78% 7
North West - 12 £393 - 1
North of England - 12 £393 - 2
East of England - 7 - -
South West - 1 - - 1
WebSphere
UK

WebSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (32.35%) JBoss
2 10 (29.41%) Tomcat
3 7 (20.59%) WebLogic
4 5 (14.71%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (8.82%) CICS
6 2 (5.88%) Apache
7 1 (2.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (2.94%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 14 (41.18%) AWS
2 7 (20.59%) Azure
3 2 (5.88%) GCP
3 2 (5.88%) IBM Cloud
3 2 (5.88%) npm
3 2 (5.88%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (2.94%) IaaS
4 1 (2.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Calico
2 1 (2.94%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (2.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (70.59%) DB2
2 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.88%) Hadoop
2 2 (5.88%) IMS/DB
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.94%) MySQL
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Git
2 7 (20.59%) Jenkins
3 5 (14.71%) Bitbucket
4 3 (8.82%) Maven
5 2 (5.88%) GitLab
5 2 (5.88%) JIRA
5 2 (5.88%) Selenium
5 2 (5.88%) SOAtest
6 1 (2.94%) Ant
6 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.94%) Hudson
6 1 (2.94%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (38.24%) Banking
2 10 (29.41%) Finance
3 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.88%) General Ledger
5 2 (5.88%) Law
5 2 (5.88%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Back Office
6 1 (2.94%) Billing
6 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Architect
2 7 (20.59%) Solutions Architect
2 7 (20.59%) Systems Architect
3 6 (17.65%) Information Architect
3 6 (17.65%) Information Systems Architect
4 5 (14.71%) Scrum Master
5 4 (11.76%) Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Applications Support
7 2 (5.88%) Agile Scrum Master
7 2 (5.88%) DevOps Specialist
7 2 (5.88%) Information Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) Information Systems Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) IT Trainer
7 2 (5.88%) Solutions Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) Support Specialist
7 2 (5.88%) Systems Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) Technical Trainer
7 2 (5.88%) Test Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Trainer
8 1 (2.94%) Java Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (32.35%) Web Services
2 10 (29.41%) J2EE
3 9 (26.47%) SOAP
4 6 (17.65%) EJB
4 6 (17.65%) Middleware
4 6 (17.65%) REST
4 6 (17.65%) WebSphere MQ
5 5 (14.71%) JSP
5 5 (14.71%) RAML
5 5 (14.71%) Servlets
5 5 (14.71%) Spring
5 5 (14.71%) WSDL
5 5 (14.71%) XML
6 4 (11.76%) RESTful
6 4 (11.76%) Spring Boot
7 3 (8.82%) JSON
8 2 (5.88%) JDBC
8 2 (5.88%) XSLT
9 1 (2.94%) CSS
9 1 (2.94%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Management Information System
2 6 (17.65%) Private Cloud
3 5 (14.71%) Product Ownership
4 3 (8.82%) Mainframe
4 3 (8.82%) VSAM
5 2 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (5.88%) Mobile App
5 2 (5.88%) Mobile Payment
6 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (35.29%) Unix
2 8 (23.53%) Linux
3 6 (17.65%) Windows
4 3 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.88%) Android
5 2 (5.88%) Apple iOS
5 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (2.94%) CentOS
6 1 (2.94%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Agile
1 14 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (23.53%) Information Management
3 7 (20.59%) Roadmaps
4 6 (17.65%) Business Analysis
4 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (17.65%) DevOps
4 6 (17.65%) Project Management
4 6 (17.65%) SDLC
5 5 (14.71%) API Development
5 5 (14.71%) Backlog Management
5 5 (14.71%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 5 (14.71%) Budget Control
5 5 (14.71%) Digital Transformation Strategy
5 5 (14.71%) ITIL
5 5 (14.71%) Problem Management
5 5 (14.71%) Process Improvement
5 5 (14.71%) Scrum
5 5 (14.71%) Systems Engineering
6 4 (11.76%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 22 (64.71%) SQL
2 10 (29.41%) Java
3 5 (14.71%) JavaScript
3 5 (14.71%) Python
3 5 (14.71%) REXX
4 3 (8.82%) COBOL
4 3 (8.82%) JCL
4 3 (8.82%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.88%) PL/SQL
5 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.94%) Bash
6 1 (2.94%) Groovy
6 1 (2.94%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.94%) Degree
2 1 (2.94%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) QA
System Software
1 10 (29.41%) Active Directory
2 9 (26.47%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (8.82%) Docker
4 1 (2.94%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.88%) Ansible
2 2 (5.88%) Istio
2 2 (5.88%) Terraform
3 1 (2.94%) Grafana
3 1 (2.94%) HAProxy
3 1 (2.94%) Podman
3 1 (2.94%) Puppet
3 1 (2.94%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 18 (52.94%) Oracle
2 11 (32.35%) IBM
3 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.88%) Ab Initio
4 2 (5.88%) Informatica
4 2 (5.88%) MuleSoft
4 2 (5.88%) Parasoft
4 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.94%) Actifio
5 1 (2.94%) Adobe
5 1 (2.94%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.94%) Moogsoft
5 1 (2.94%) Pega
5 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.94%) Remedy
5 1 (2.94%) Splunk